Transplants, Joint Ventures Will Blunt China’s Electric Car Impact

Europe’s manufacturers are braced for a Chinese electric car sales onslaught but the impact will be mitigated by their establishment of European factories and willingness to set up local joint ventures.

Threats of tariffs won’t stall China’s threat to European electric carmakers, but the plans might stumble as the promised exponential gains in electric car sales meet the consumer reality of high prices, inadequate performance, patchy power availability and a skimpy charging infrastructure.